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Noether's theorem in quantum mechanics

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What great mathematics are we missing out on because of language barriers?

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A book on locally ringed spaces?

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Freyd-Mitchell's embedding theorem

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Minimal prerequisite to reading Wiles' proof of Fermat's Last Theorem

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Bijection implies isomorphism for algebraic varieties

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References for Artin motives

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Has the mathematics research community ever been led astray by a dumb mistake?

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What is some good introduction to lambda calculus?

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Are non-PL manifolds CW-complexes?

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When a formal power series is a rational function in disguise

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List of crowdsourced math projects actively seeking participants

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Why localize spaces with respect to homology?

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Good reference for studying operads?

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Enriched Categories: Ideals/Submodules and algebraic geometry

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Who invented diagrammatic algebra?

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Improving readability of proofs

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An interesting integral expression for $\pi^n$?

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How to write a good MathSciNet review?

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Using consistency to create new axioms in set theory

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What are the most important instances of the "yoga of generic points"?

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When does symmetry in an optimization problem imply that all variables are equal at optimality?

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How many surjections are there from a set of size n?

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Maurer-Cartan form

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Generalizations of Planar Graphs

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References for "modern" proof of Newlander-Nirenberg Theorem

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Principal bundles, representations, and vector bundles

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Connectivity of the Erdős–Rényi random graph

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How do pure mathematicians assess whether their research ambitions can be realistically achieved?

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Why are monadicity and descent related?

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"Sums-compact" objects = f.g. objects in categories of modules?

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What books should I read before beginning Masaki Kashiwara and Pierre Schapira's "Sheaves on Manifolds"

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Taking a theorem as a definition and proving the original definition as a theorem

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When is an algebraic space a scheme?

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Difference between parallel transport and derivative of the exponential map

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Conceptual understanding of the Gross-Zagier theorem.

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Extending vector bundles on a given open subscheme

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Why do we need model categories?

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Does anyone still seriously doubt the consistency of $ZFC$?

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The Frobenius morphism

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Flat module and torsion-free module

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Why stable $\infty$-categories?

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What mathematical problems can be attacked using DeepMind's recent mathematical breakthroughs?

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Almost Complex Structure approach to Deformation of Compact Complex Manifolds

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Intuition for failure of Implicit Function theorem on Frechet Manifolds

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Do there exist chess positions that require exponentially many moves to reach?

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Is there a natural bijection from $\mathbb{N}$ to $\mathbb{Q}$?

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Why chain homotopy when there is no topology in the background?

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Why are profinite topologies important?

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Kuenneth-formula for group cohomology with nontrivial action on the coefficient

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Survey article on Intersection Theory

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Smooth vs regular vs non-singular

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What to look for in applicants to graduate programs (in mathematics)?

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Elementary short exact sequence of sheaves

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Daunting papers/books and how to finally read them

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What can an algebraic geometer do outside academia? [closed]

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What is so geometric about symplectic geometry?

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Equivalent statements of the Riemann hypothesis in the Weil conjectures

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Modern proof of Serre's open image theorem?

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Math Annotate Platform?

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